A MEDICAL technology firm that helps doctors replace stethoscopes with iPhone-sized scanners is coming to Aim.

Medaphor Group will raise £4.7million when it joins the market on August 27, giving it a market value of £10.7million.

Advised by Cenkos Securities, the company is a spin-off from Cardiff University and is backed by the investment firm IP Group.

It sells ultrasound education and training devices to hospital departments, medical schools and universities in 11 countries including the US and China.

Its lead product is the Scan-Trainer, a computer-based virtual reality ultrasound training simulator for doctors in the fields of gynaecology and obstetrics.

It is the go-to diagnostic equipment now for a range of treatments as doctors can scan and talk through with the patients what they are seeing on screen

Chief executive Stuart Gall

Chief executive Stuart Gall said: “There is a huge global bottleneck of doctors wanting to learn how to scan.

“It is the go-to diagnostic equipment now for a range of treatments as doctors can scan and talk through with the patients what they are seeing on screen. In the past doctors had stethoscopes round their necks.

“Now every one of them will have iPhone size ultra-sound scanners in their pockets instead and they need to learn the hand to eye co-ordination skills of using them. Our kit does that.”

Gall said the ScanTrainer is increasingly being used in new medical areas, such as radiology and emergency medicine.

“Doctors want to use ultrasound scanning when patients are wheeled into emergency wards to check for things such as internal bleeding,” he added.